Members of the Dutch marshals check a vehicle with a Belgian license plate at Schiphol Airport in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, April 12, 2016, after somebody was arrested due to suspicious action.
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Military police Wednesday probed a major security alert at Amsterdam’s busy global airport, with one man still in custody in a jolt to Dutch authorities, three weeks after attacks in Belgium killed 32 people.
Heavily armed military police, in body armor and ski masks holding machine guns, arrested the man and patrolled the airport in a four-hour security clampdown. One man was arrested but no explosives were found.
Bomb experts were called in to inspect the man’s case. Flights were not impacted by the investigation, though, and trains arriving at the airport’s underground station went uninterrupted.
Military police have arrested a man and are conducting an investigation at Amsterdam’s Schiphol Airport after a report…
During the investigation, the airport was closed temporarily, stranding passengers outside the facility.
The nearby Schiphol Sheraton hotel was also evacuated, some news media reported.
The Netherlands has been on high alert since the Islamist terrorist attacks in Brussels last month, with Dutch counter-terrorism officials boosting security at national airports and tightening controls on the southern border with Belgium.
The Dutch Explosive Ordnance Disposal investigated two bags of the suspect, but no explosives were found and at around 1:40 a.m. the area was given all clear by the military police.
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Air traffic was not disrupted by the bomb scare, the airport said via Twitter on Tuesday night.
